Great Minds - Part 1 - Plato's Republic I: Justice, Power, and Knowledge 

i'm a law professor. I wish half my students had your curiousity. Keep it up!

Professor D'Blond-O

blaze 2019 - You are certainly NOT “uneducated” (MBAs who have no interest in learning anything beyond what will benefit their corporate careers are uneducated) - and I agree with Damian Biondo: I, too, wish half my students had your intellectual curiosity and sense of wonder; I have to brush up on Kardashians trivia just to get them to take their doctoral comprehensive exams...

I'm in construction as well! Ditch-Digger Laborer!

Travis Cooper - Me, too! Archaeologist, excavator.

He died!? Of what?

Nonsense; I would not trust a person if he did not have enemies. Having enemies indicates that you have a strong position on moral or political matters.

I thought it was interesting because it seemed to imply that your “enemy” is defined by yourself. The person may not have your best interests in mind, or may be actively working against you, but you have the ability to contextualize their actions in relation to yourself, and it doesn’t have to be adversarial. Easier said than done, though.

@@michaellangan4450 this is a real philosophy moment here

Back in high school I remember a saying if u have haters your doing something right

that is why i hate ultranacionalistic racist and comunes, bro we are human beings, all of us, even the dumbest of the dumb are highly evolved biological machines, we are in this together all of us.

Yup. Why do you have Buddha as your DP ? Wouldn't it be better to have Socrates ?

@@DipayanPyne94 why not have Buddha and Socrates at the same time? DP in his ass. You did mean Double Penetration, right???

@@common_sense2022 Jesus. The f is wrong with you 🤦🏽‍♂️

​@@DipayanPyne94 No, the Buddha is far better

@@madallas_mons Good joke. I used to believe that too. Then, I read Plato and he changed my life. He SAVED me.

Two minutes in and I had the same thought. Like I'm sitting on some marble stairs.

That’s 2000% true mahn💯😂😂

You got it, Sahil.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VeduIpglkrg.html Socrates speech at his trial for impiety and corruption, is in Greek but that’s how he’d sound.

He talks way too fast. He doesn't give the listener a moment to process.

Dad said, the days pass slowly but the years are gone all too soon.

I think you’d like Pierre grimes’s lectures on Plato. Type his name then type “Parmenides” right after. He has dozens if not hundreds of lectures here. What’s the difference? Pierre is a mystic and thinks Plato was on to something. So, he makes the best argument he can for him. Whereas, as good as he is, sugrue is an academic. I don’t know that he actually bought in to the transcendence of the GOOD-ONE. but I’m just guessing. Regardless, Pierre Grimes is pretty good.

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If my professors were like this in college, I'd forever be a college student.

I'm selling bootleg copies in the alley for a third of the price.

@@tatsumakisempyukaku thank you for the tip on finding other lectures from this man. I really enjoy his lectures.

Your usage of punctuation gave me cancer.

Here's the thing. Philosophy and other social sciences can be percieved by a beginner. For some bizarre reason it's considered like "high class", like something you need a lot of degrees to understand. Natural science ok, a beginner will only be able to get a "popular science lecture for non scientists". But social science? You can walk into a pholosophy course in an Ivy League university and be as good as the other students. You'll have a problem in a low grade level college if you try to understand what Calculus II is about of course. But philosophy? History? It can be done. If you have the time (and money?) try to get into a university for such a degree. I assure you, you'll be among the best of the class.

Breeze into a class on Wittgenstein's Tractatus at any of the Ivies with which you are so well acquainted and let me know how close to the top you breeze out.

Mate, what do you mean by unwashed ?

We're living in wonderful time aren't we?

​@@alonsofrancescutti4956 1. He said that already. 2. In some ways, yes; in some ways, no.

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Can you share them with us sir

@@FarazAhmed-jc4cc just pay for the subscription! It’s like 10 dollars a month now and it’s all steamable. I used to buy the DVDs and CDs years ago, but now for 10 bucks I can watch any of the great courses on my device or TV. 👍🏼

@@slashtrio lol

Share it mann

He talks way too fast. He doesn't give the listener a moment to process.

When I re-read the republic, and right there in the beginning, it’s there; I realized that what Plato thought to be the ideal city-state, was a simple one, wherein everyone had just enough for their needs. And so worked hard enough and long enough to supply those needs, and no more. Meaning he described the Just city early on. But this was called a city only good enough for pigs. The whole bit on the 3 parts of the city, comes when you remove justice from it; to an extent removed. Where lies and force and misinformation are needed to “make it work”. Make what work? “A luxurious city” Then I realized that there are a lot of people who give me shit about my liking plato, because Plato does talk about some tyrannical tendencies. But now I see, that’s only “needed”, if I can say it’s needed, when Justice is removed. In other words, when the proper arrangements of the parts, and relations of each to each other are removed, and replaced with relations that are incommensurate and disproportionate or unsuited for the members of the whole.

We are two.

@@blairhakamies4132 we are three

We are four

Dad smiled and said Yes. As you know, it is a blessed experience. For those young people who will listen, help them with your vision.

I’ve done the same with movies. Watching The Graduate in my 20s I identified and completely supported Hoffmann’s young actions, yet as a 50 year old I sympathized with his parents and didn’t idolize him, seeing the many MANY grey areas of all those involved.

@@dr.michaelsugrue In the lectures, is there an audience behind the camera?

@@gloriusbastards I'm pretty sure you can hear people laughing early in this lecture

Yes

there is socrates the philosopher and socrates the footballer 2 different people

Great tip with the speed.

Daddy doesn’t like comparison. Daddy is Dr. Sugrue . The one and only.

@@sarooz48 I like the comparison. That helps me assimilate Sugrue's style. Idc what Sugrue thinks on a personal level, not knowing him! :)

How exactly is expressing gratitude to someone who has passed on disrespectful?

@@musawenkositshabalala45 My Dad is sick but alive. I am his daughter.

@@dr.michaelsugrue I hope he gets better, and so glad you uploaded these! I wish I could meet him.

@@dr.michaelsugrue please tell Dr Sugrue about our appreciation of his depth and simlicity about all these philosophical material. Best wishes from Turkey

@@dr.michaelsugrue tell you dad he work is still doing great things for a new generation! Take care and happy holidays to you and your family

Charley A thank you so much for Prof.Michaels lectures..I appreciate the time he put into preperation.Well done and well said.

I agree.

The east also has some equally great intellectual minds. Honestly most civilizations have cultivated some sense of philosophy.

Dad said this is not even wrong.